"While President Barack Obama is touting clean energy such as wind farms, a group of American scientists are raising alarm bells that wind turbines increase the effects of global warming, as well as killing birds that fall prey to the deadly spinning blades," says an item from Dallasblog.com.

Gee, who would have thought?

The blog quotes from a Daily Mail of London report that, "they have long been championed as a way to combat global warming by creating clean energy. But wind farms can actually alter the climate according to a new study by a group of American scientists."

Who is surprised? After all, according to the prevailing theory, everything causes global warming and everything is caused by global warming, a perfect green circle.

University of Illinois research discovered daytime temperatures near wind farms drops as much as 8 degrees Fahrenheit, while the evening temperatures increase.

The Mail says, "the study found that currently the effect is restricted to areas near to the turbines, but the increase in larger farms could create weather changes on a regional scale."

More windmills to fight global warming = more global warming. You have to love it.

Of course, for this to be really meaningful first you have to believe global warming is harmful. Then you have to believe it's happening in a huge way. Then you have to believe that man's paltry efforts have anything to do with it.

Nowhere except in computer models that exclude data that would disprove their assumptions has dangerous manmade global warming been found. Nowhere. A fraction of a degree over 150 years is laughably non-dangerous. It also is well within normal variations of global temperature. And even that scant increase is highly questionable because of the flawed system of measurement. See surfacestations.org for that eye-opener, if you dare.

And even using their flawed observations, the global temperature has not increased in a statistically meaningful way for 15 years.

The warming movement is advanced by those who stand to gain - and indeed have hugely gained - from it. Plenty of conflict there.

There is a vast difference between saying temperatures have increased and man has something to do with it and temperatures are increasing dangerously and it's man's fault. If you spit in the ocean, you increase its mass. And about as meaningfully as man's contribution to temperatures.

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